Van Cafe to merge with Rocky Mountain Westy!

[shagginwagon83]

[Multiman mv]

[seabright_sc]

I’ve lived in Santa Cruz for over 20 years, and Peter and his crew have always served my vans well. There was the time when I first got my most recent Westy 10 years ago when I had authorized Peter $500 worth of repairs and the bill came out to be 800. We were broke with our second child and he allowed me to pay the balance when I got paid next month. This is just one of many stories of the wonderful service that I would receive when I would go in there. Often times just to buy an oil filter so that I could ask Peter a technical question. Which he always happily answered. I loved how Volks café as it was originally known, never scared you into making unnecessary pears, and always gave the service that made you feel good about owning a van and being a customer. It’s been a blessing being a customer living only a mile away for the last 20 years and they will definitely be missed in Santa Cruz. Best wishes to Peter and crew who deserve all good fortunes to come their way. I wonder if any of the former mechanics our plan planning on staying local to join one of the other shops or starting up a shot of their own. There will definitely be a market for it now that volks café has closed in town.

[E1]

Stop with the Cookie Hypnosis nonsense already!!!

I had a great, first dialog with Mike the other day. My goal was needing to know that the VC name was in able hands that encouraged my support.

He passed, and didn't have to earn my trust with a damned cookie.
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‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
— Colin Chapman

[wesitarz]

I always thought RMW was high with their shipping charges at least to Canada
(same with BusDepot). $150 worth of Vanagon parts would cost another $60-70 for shipping. I cut it down to 3 parts and compared RMW with GoWesty. Gowesty was about half - $25 cheaper for the equivalent parts. Do I still get the same tax exemption for classic vanagon parts with RMW that I used to get with Van Cafe and with GoWesty?

[DometicLover]

[Bicycle019]

I just noticed that they moved to "just up the road" from us here in Denver when I was placing an order for some power steering hoses. Always enjoyed the shopping experience and service, plus cookies and custom art on the boxes from Van Cafe. Best of luck to Mike and the RMW+VC crew.
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'89 Vanagon Whitestar
'84 Jetta GLI - built 2.0 ABA
'16 GTI Performance Pack
'17 Golf AllTrack (wife)

[pdxleaf]

[ThankYouJerry]

Thought I'd link this thread for historical reference :
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=538618

Just placed my first "VC/RMW" order!
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1990 Multivan - "Ohana"
1.8T, Auto w/3.27 R&P + Peloquin TBD

[ThankYouJerry]

Ordered Thursday 9pm... Arrived in NorCal Monday afternoon complete with cookie.. Great job CO Van Cafe! Thanks for upholding your great CA reputation and service!
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1990 Multivan - "Ohana"
1.8T, Auto w/3.27 R&P + Peloquin TBD

[kamzcab86]

First post-merge order:

Plastic crap, hardened O-rings, and coolant leaking onto exhaust... gone!
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~Kamz
1986 Cabriolet: www.Cabby-Info.com
1990 Vanagon Westfalia: Old Blue's Blog
2016 Golf GTI S
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - 孔子

[E1]

Did you have to pay extra for the expansion tank after buying the cookie?

Awesome piece, ours is almost due...
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‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
— Colin Chapman

[kamzcab86]

[djkeev]

[Mellow Yellow 74]

[djkeev]

[CdnVWJunkie]

[Mellow Yellow 74]

[djkeev]

[garbaldie]

Just placed my first order since the merger, very pleased that they have retained the ability to choose between USPS and DHL for shipping to Canada, as I avoid UPS as much as possible.

Looking forward to my first Colorado cookie!!